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Apr 21, 2024
Preliminary (3/12 eps)
Spoiler
Hear ye! Hear ye! With utmost reverence, I do reveal unto thee the anime of the season once again! Our hero hast persevered against the melancholy brought about by thy fair lady Eris, been wedded to his fanciful elven bride, and even made ends on an abundant abode to protect his ever-growing clan. What adventures shall await our valiant hero in chapters untold? Await with bated breath for another enchanting season to uncover the sagas yet untold!

On a serious note, this season of Mushoku Tensei doesn’t have the same hook that previous ones had. He’s not depressed with erectile dysfunction, he’s not on a journey ...
Mar 30, 2024
Mixed Feelings
About 7 months ago, I added an anime called “Solo Leveling” to my Plan to Watch list on a complete whim. I had no idea what the anime was supposed to be about or what a manhwa was, let alone the extent to which Solo Leveling is praised in that space, yet I still had expectations for this season, purely based on the hype and anticipation that friends displayed for this series. Through 12 episodes, I can gladly say that Solo Leveling would’ve lived up to those expectations… had I still been 13 years old and still believed that SAO was the greatest thing ever ...
Mar 21, 2024
Over the past 12 weeks, I have spent a combined 4 hours of my fleeting time on this planet watching Chained Soldier, and through 12 episodes, all I can say is that my experience was only slightly better than taking the SAT, getting a colonoscopy, or having a physical done by an old man. This series just feels forgettable; in the depressing way where it isn’t laughably bad enough to be remembered, but it’s nowhere near good enough to be remembered either. This series is just another redundant entry into the bloated ecchi ___ genre, that blank being an amalgamation of different story beats that ...
Dec 22, 2023
Second chances are typically so rare in the entertainment industry. This is only natural considering that creative writers are always bidding for the favor of the audience, so massive flops generally turn into IP suicide as audiences are quick to fuck off to the next big thing. However, a rare second chance is precisely why you and I are watching the third season of Shield Hero, and at the end of it all, I can genuinely say that this series thoroughly squandered this opportunity to correct the absolute stinker of the second season.

I’m not even going to pretend that this season is downright ...
Oct 13, 2023
Mixed Feelings
Preliminary (6/28 eps)
Through 3 episodes, Frieren appears to be a unique masterpiece in storytelling and worldbuilding, a bright spot in the middling fantasy genre, and one of the leading anime of the season, no, anime of the year candidates; I do not recommend it to 70% of anime fans.

Don’t get me wrong, this show is absolutely amazing at pretty much every aspect of being an anime, and through 3 episodes, I literally can’t find a single gripe that I have about this series. However, I can easily see how the average anime fan would find the series “boring” or “uninteresting”. Frieren isn’t a flashy series: it ...
Sep 24, 2023
Imagine this scenario. You get home after a long day of work and doordash some orange chicken from your local Chinese restaurant. When you receive your food, you realize that your little to-go container doesn’t have orange chicken in it; hell, it doesn’t even have Chinese food in it. You stare down 3 tacos, chips and queso, and a fucking canned horchata from a Mexican restaurant you’ve never heard of. You have more questions than answers, especially since both restaurants can’t do anything about it and Doordash is offering you an insulting 6.90 in credit off of your 25-dollar meal as a pittance. With no ...
Sep 16, 2023
Liar Liar (Anime) add
Imagine if someone asked ChatGPT to create a mad-libs script based on Kakegurui, Classroom of the Elite, and No Game No Life, and then they presented that script to their local anime club. Each episode's worth of prompts is filled in by different people, and none of these people can communicate with each other in any way; reading the previous sections to see what was going on is completely optional. After a plot is created, one guy creates characters based on the advice from a slightly shitter chatbot service that is trained on Mal’s top 100 most popular anime list. After this, the members of ...
Jul 23, 2023
Preliminary (3/12 eps)
Look, I like zombies as much as the next guy, but their recent portrayal in modern television has left a lot to be desired. The American market is oversaturated with long-running series that often fail to retain viewers as their content becomes more vapid throughout the series. On the other hand, zombie anime are typically too edgy or too horny for my tastes (looking at you Highschool of Dead). Both American and Japanese zombie tv shows have an inherent issue with sticking to tropes: (mobile combat scenes, searching for survivors, looking for a cure, establishing a base, etc.). This coupled with the oversaturation of the ...
Jul 15, 2023
Preliminary (3/13 eps)
If you were to tell me that I would be reviewing a second season for Horimiya after the conclusion of the first, I would’ve probably laughed in your face, but here we are.

A string of wacky adaptations that condensed the series from a 500+ chapter web novel to a 122-chapter manga and further to a 13-episode anime resulted in a finished product that had cut out a large majority of the series’ content. This cutting of content is actually done well; especially in the anime where no major story beats were cut in a somehow conclusive story. Nearly 60% of the manga’s content was ...
Jun 28, 2023
"Oshi no Ko" (Anime) add
“I have absolutely no interest in idols or the culture surrounding them. Frankly, I find the concept of grown-ass men (and to a lesser extent women), idolizing girls as young as 15 to be… strange at best and utterly creepy at worst. The only reason I picked up Oshi No Ko is because Aka Akasaka wrote it; the author that just happened to write Kaguya-sama, my favorite overall series. Despite the name behind it, I admittedly still had my prejudices.“

That is how I introduced my preliminary review; an admittedly vapid work where I sung my praises about Oshi No Ko by sucking off the first ...


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